Lee Daniels' The Butler
PG-13; Forest Whitaker, David Banner, Mariah Carey, Alex Pettyfer, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, James Marsden. Based on a true story, Cecil Gaines served as a butler in the White House for eight terms, major events such as the...

Moisés Kaufman's muscular revival of "Bent," which opened Sunday at the Mark Taper Forum, renders what many had written off as a parochial drama about the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany into a gripping tale of love, courage...

After receiving a Donkey Kong-style pounding from critics, "Pixels," the '80s video-game themed comedy starring Adam Sandler, was edged out at the box office on its opening weekend, failing to take the No. 1 spot from...

AMY. 4 stars. An extraordinary documentary about Amy Winehouse, the British singer who died in 2011, at age 27, a victim of too much drink, too many drugs and too much fame. Soul-stirring, heartbreaking, the film uses a trove of archival film, much of...

"I have been alone, all my life," says 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen), and you hear every one of his years in that voice. "Mr. Holmes," directed by Bill Condon and based on a novel by Mitch Cullin, isn't really a mystery,...

Other than the inside of my car at mid-afternoon, what's the hottest thing going right now? Or perhaps I should ask what's trending? Is it Sir Ian McKellen reading Taylor Swift lyrics for Yahoo? Poor old and mistreated Pluto (the "minor...

He never wore that "signature" deerstalker hat, nor smoked a pipe. Those were just an illustrator's embellishments in the wildly popular, penny-dreadful accounts of his adventures penned by his late pal Dr. Watson resulting in the cult fame...

In "Mr. Holmes," Ian McKellen and director Bill Condon reunite for another story about an aging man confronting his mortality. Their first collaboration, 1998's Oscar-winning "Gods and Monsters," centered on filmmaker James Whale, best...

With Robert Downey Jr. making him a skull-cracking action hero, and Benedict Cumberbatch making him a high-functioning sociopath, what sort of Sherlock Holmes yarn can add fresh story material? How about Ian McKellen playing the immortal character as...

People expect delightful things from Ian McKellen, the English stage and screen great. He saw his first payday at age 3, stepped onto his first stage at 6 and, since his professional debut in 1961 at age 22, has never been out of work. One of his...

MOVIES Opening Friday "Trainwreck" (R): After becoming a star through her popular TV skit show, Amy Schumer ventures into film with this comedy (directed by Knocked Up's Judd Apatow) about a woman afraid of commitment who is trying to...

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart just took their bromance to the next level: smooching on a red carpet.
The British stars have been close pals for decades, and Stewart and his wife, Sunny Ozell, attended the U.K. premiere of McKellen's...

Every successful superhero requires an appropriately fiendish villain to bring out the best in him and serve as a credible threat to humanity. In the case of "Avengers: Age of Ultron," the all-star squad's nemesis comes in the form of Ultron,...

Ian McKellen takes on the role of Sherlock Holmes in a new movie coming to theaters this summer.
A trailer for the film "Mr. Holmes" is recently available introducing this version of the famous detective. The movie had its premiere at the...

The February ratings period starts Thursday, and that night will be busier than usual.
ABC offers fresh installments of its three dramas. "Grey's Anatomy" returns at 8 p.m., "Scandal" follows at 9, and "How to Get Away With...

Mince pies, Christmas crackers, all those "Keep Calm and Jingle On" T-shirts — and now television.
This year, Americans can celebrate a very British Christmas without leaving their homes, much less braving Heathrow at the holidays.
In the...

NOV. 5
Interstellar
As mankind's time on Earth comes to an end, astronauts travel through a wormhole in search of a new home for humanity. With Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and Michael Caine. Written by Jonathan Nolan and...

Hugh Jackman's clawed hero Wolverine has the unenviable task of traveling back in time to try to save the world in Bryan Singer's "X-Men: Days of Future Past," and the final trailer finds him following in the grand movie tradition of...

Not many superheroes can wallop bad guys and belt out a tune with equal aplomb, but Fox's "X-Men" franchise boasts just such a guy in Hugh Jackman, a.k.a. Wolverine.
The star of last summer's "The Wolverine" demonstrated his singing...